Akanksha Srivastava

Here to quietly chronicle the exhilarating and the mundane, alliterating along the way. @BITSPilaniIndia | @iiit_hyderabad

[Roman Helmet Guy @romanhelmetguy]

Warning: Do not adopt any new code editors this month. Beware the IDEs of March.

[Zhikai Zhang @Zhikai273]

🎾Introducing LATENT: Learning Athletic Humanoid Tennis Skills from Imperfect Human Motion Data

Dynamic movements, agile whole-body coordination, and rapid reactions. A step toward athletic humanoid sports skills.

Project: https://t.co/MFy2NIOsrn
Code: https://t.co/A7B5H8PIBh

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

I packaged up the "autoresearch" project into a new self-contained minimal repo if people would like to play over the weekend. It's basically nanochat LLM training core stripped down to a single-GPU, one file version of ~630 lines of code, then:

- the human iterates on the prompt (.md)
- the AI agent iterates on the training code (.py)

The goal is to engineer your agents to make the fastest research progress indefinitely and without any of your own involvement. In the image, every dot is a complete LLM training run that lasts exactly 5 minutes. The agent works in an autonomous loop on a git feature branch and accumulates git commits to the training script as it finds better settings (of lower validation loss by the end) of the neural network architecture, the optimizer, all the hyperparameters, etc. You can imagine comparing the research progress of different prompts, different agents, etc.

https://t.co/YCvOwwjOzF
Part code, part sci-fi, and a pinch of psychosis :)

[Yann LeCun @ylecun]

Hugo Duminil-Copin, French mathematician and 2022 Field Medalist told me he never participated in math competition and was very bad at it.
Innovative mathematics requires creativity, intuition, intense concentration, and long reflections, sometimes spread over several years.
Good performance at a math olympiad merely tests fast problem solving abilities. AI can do that nowadays.
One of the big activities of a researcher, in mathematics and elsewhere, is not to answer questions but to ask the right questions.

[Grant Sanderson @3blue1brown]

New video! Memorable for its delightfully absurd name, the Hairy Ball Theorem is extremely beautiful and has some surprising applications.

Full video here: https://t.co/dbfi7yXaOD

[Akanksha Srivastava @akanksha]

@nandiniv https://t.co/8iyZQ8Jh4z

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@emergentlabs Fantastic so far but I ran out of budget and + isn’t letting me add more. Help!

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@minilek Happened all the time with personal hygiene items at the market and 9th Walgreens. Just too many who needed it and couldn’t afford it.

[Akanksha Srivastava @akanksha]

I volunteered to teach school kids with an organization in San Francisco and picked English. They said but you’re Indian, can you please take Math and Physics? 😡🤪

[Never break kayfabe @Tripolar_B]

You ever had a racist experience but it was funny tho

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@vinayaravind Now I wonder if you’re going to get business enquiries or marriage proposals!

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@bandanjot PS

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@akgoyal

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@akgoyal 🤗

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@masthminching Happy happy birthday babe! Wishing you all the calm and beauty your heart desires.

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@fasc1nate @akgoyal 👆🏼

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@_sankaushik

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@imrahulmaddy Tamil isn’t your primary language?

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@akgoyal @Target They didn’t adjust in store?